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022 - Movie Review and Season 3 Kickoff
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In this week’s episode, we discuss:
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Spock’s Brain, and The Enterprise Incident
- The movie worked a lot better on a big TV than The Original Series
- Strong opening to the movie
- Klingons look and seem very different
- Enterprise porn
- Remastered version of the movie – probably looked better on my TV at home than it would have in the theater
- Characters felt different
- What somebody who doesn’t know anything about Star Trek might think Star Trek is like
- William Shatner doing a Captain Kirk impersonation
- Differences between the series and the movie
- For all the criticism of the movie, it was stunning
- Is human consciousness just a physics and chemistry question?
- Some timely Oscars talk – debating Avatar vs. The Hurt Locker
- Absurd moments for a Star Trek episode
- Future technological understanding
- Was Gene Roddenberry holding up a mirror to society?
- Star Trek and Black Mirror
- Star Trek as a Trojan horse
- Mutual respect with the Romulans?
- Lies of omission
- Space pirates
- The Vulcan Death Grip
- Genetic similarities between Vulcans and Romulans
- Self-destructing Enterprise
- A pleasant surprise for early season 3
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